(2015-12-18, 07:18)tars Wrote: Thanks for the new version!
The bugs I reported were all fixed properly.

1. Whenever executing "Batch Rescraper Wizard" command from main menu, a dialog pops up saying "Index was outside the bounds of the array. Continue?". Upon clicking on No, the program closes down. "Refresh" doesn't help.

(2015-12-18, 07:18)tars Wrote: 2. MPAA uses "Rated XX on appeal for..." phrases as well which are not handled correctly by the new option. e.g. Solaris (2002)

(2015-12-18, 07:18)tars Wrote: 3. Right-clicking on any place on filter boxes displays "Configure Movie Filters" command. But right-clicking on an enabled filter entry (e.g. "+Tom Cruise") changes it to "all". I don't think that's intended.

(2015-12-18, 07:18)tars Wrote: 4. I think preferences still have some room for improvement.

- "Common" and "General" sounds almost the same to users (yes, I know the differences). How about merging them into "General" with some more tabs?
- Too diverse options under "Movie / General". Why don't you create more tabs under Movie?
- Also group options based on key functionality. Why is "exclude rated prefix" option alone placed under General instead of under Scraper? Movie Set settings too are scattered across under different tabs and it's hard to locate each option.

(2015-12-19, 13:39)tars Wrote:

(2015-12-18, 04:49)vbat99 Wrote: if not selected, Rated is added if not present.

Due to the change, now "Rated" gets added even before "Unrated", "Not Rated", "Approved", "Passed", and no-value movies.

If you enable "exclude Rated" option, then filtering gets messed up with R-rated movies as I reported earlier.

(2015-12-18, 03:59)tars Wrote: I got hundreds of filtering entries for R movies like "R for ..." unlike PG or PG-13 movies.

(2015-12-20, 03:23)tars Wrote: While you're at it, you might want to improve the filtering scheme to be more useful.

I'd suggest there should be "All" (G) and "18+" (NC-17 / X) categories additionally.

Also "GP" and "M" are the same as today's "PG".

And "Approved" and "Passed" are closer to "Unrated" category since they can be any in today's rating scheme.

(2015-12-22, 14:54)tars Wrote: The inbuilt IMDB scraper fails to scrape properly field values with hypertext.
Try scrape outline for Aliens (1986), which currently writes: "The planet from <a href='/title/tt0078748/?ref_='>Alien".

(2015-12-22, 13:07)ztrust Wrote: Hey vbat
Regarding the episode actors and images not being scraped from imdb I have been keeping an eye out and a good example is The Flash (2014) Season 2 Episode 8
Imdb all actors have role and and thumb on IMDB but my nfo do not have these

Code:

<actor>
        <name>Casper Crump</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Ciara Renée</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Falk Hentschel</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Teddy Sears</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Stephen Amell</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Emily Bett Rickards</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>David Ramsey</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>John Barrowman</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Willa Holland</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Neal McDonough</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Anna Hopkins</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Shantel VanSanten</name>
        <role>
        </role>
    </actor>

Settings is Tvshow actor from TMDB and episode actor from imdb

and flash tvshow info
<episodeactorsource>imdb</episodeactorsource>
<tvshowactorsource>tvdb</tvshowactorsource>
<sortorder>default</sortorder>
<sorttitle>Flash (2014), The</sorttitle>

(2015-12-18, 04:49)vbat99 Wrote: For next release.

Fixed Exclude Rated. If selected, Rated is removed, if not selected, Rated is added if not present.
New option. Remove phrases after Rating Certificate Cleans from Certificate on-wards.
ie: Rated PG - 13 for violence throughout and suggestive content including nudity becomes PG - 13, or Rated PG - 13.

This is on Scrape, Rescrape level of Media Companion now.

(2015-12-18, 05:08)tars Wrote: Would there be any differences between enabling that new option and using USA ratings over MPAA ratings?

(2015-12-29, 03:14)tars Wrote: About these changes,

(2015-12-18, 04:49)vbat99 Wrote: For next release.

Fixed Exclude Rated. If selected, Rated is removed, if not selected, Rated is added if not present.
New option. Remove phrases after Rating Certificate Cleans from Certificate on-wards.
ie: Rated PG - 13 for violence throughout and suggestive content including nudity becomes PG - 13, or Rated PG - 13.

This is on Scrape, Rescrape level of Media Companion now.

(1) Removing "Rated" was good, but adding "Rated" isn't.
(2) The new option to remove phrases is not really necessary.

(1) Lots of movies, even many US ones, lack MPAA rating (even when they have USA rating). They will, in most cases, fall back to other certificate system depending on the user's setting. You wouldn't want to add "Rated" to all those different countries' certificates, would you? If the user wants consistency, then he or she could choose to tick "exclude Rated" option as now it removes the prefix from whatever cases.

(2) As I already told you,

(2015-12-18, 05:08)tars Wrote: Would there be any differences between enabling that new option and using USA ratings over MPAA ratings?

the new option to remove phrases doesn't make significant differences from using USA certificates instead if the user wants to scrape the rating only.

Regarding this, can you improve USA certificate scraping a little?
IMDB has multiple USA ratings for some movies like Edward Scissorhands (1990)



In that case, MC picks up the former rather than the latter. Would be great if it gives priority to a non-TV certificate (not having "TV" in its wording).

So my suggestions for certificates:

- Do not add "Rated" prefix when the exclude setting is enabled
- Remove the new option to remove phrases
- Fix filtering for R & NC-17 rated movies when the exclude setting is enabled
- Improve filtering scheme for certificates as I proposed

(2015-12-18, 05:08)tars Wrote: Would there be any differences between enabling that new option and using USA ratings over MPAA ratings?

(2015-12-29, 10:24)vbat99 Wrote: (6) Filtering for R & NC-17. I Need example movies as I do not get Rated R or just R in my Certificate Filter list. Also NC-17, have no example of this Cert that I can test with.

Also, I mentioned I needed sample movies for returned MPAA as UnRated, Not Rated, Approved and Passed.

(2015-12-20, 03:23)tars Wrote:

This happens only with R and NC-17 rated movies.

(2015-12-29, 12:16)tars Wrote:

(2015-12-29, 10:24)vbat99 Wrote: (6) Filtering for R & NC-17. I Need example movies as I do not get Rated R or just R in my Certificate Filter list. Also NC-17, have no example of this Cert that I can test with.

Also, I mentioned I needed sample movies for returned MPAA as UnRated, Not Rated, Approved and Passed.

Looks like you still don't understand what the problem is.
Look at my screenshot again.

(2015-12-20, 03:23)tars Wrote:

This happens only with R and NC-17 rated movies.

Got it? Tick "exclude prefix" option and untick "remove phrases" option.

For sample movies, use the following template.

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?certificates=us:not_rated

(2015-12-29, 23:16)onlinespending Wrote: well this is just great. I ran Media Companion for the first time on a collection of movies I had stored in D:\Movies. Some of the movies were just files. Others were in subfolders. Added D:\Movies as a folder and ran the scraper. Ran on all 130 movies, but when it was done all my movies were deleted. The D:\Movies folder doesn't exist anymore! This is using the latest version at the moment, v3.6.3.9. Any advice or ideas what could have possibly happend for it to just wipe out my collection?